Intel Arc A310 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

VS

Intel Arc A310

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Arc A310 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

Intel Arc A310 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 67% (1750MHz vs 1050MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (30W vs 300W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 124.0GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Arc A310

2.688 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition +60%

4.301 TFLOPS

Arc A310

VS

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

Oct 2022

Release Date

Jun 2012

Alchemist

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1750 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1750 MHz

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

1937 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

384bit

124.0GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

-

768

Shading Units

2048

32

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

96

Tensor Cores

-

6

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.60 GPixel/s

56.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

134.4 GTexel/s

5.376 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.688 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.301 TFLOPS

672.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1075 GFLOPS

Board Design

30W

TDP

300W

200 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

4x mini-DisplayPort 2.0

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

DG2-128

GPU Name

Tahiti

ACM-G11

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)

Generation 12.7

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

6 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

157 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.6

Shader Model

5.1

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